Example sentences of "[subord] i can [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I can not give the House any good news on that score tonight , I can say that we are considering the matter . |
| 2 | Although I can now see the inherent sense in glueing a book to a table , then the point was just beyond me . |
| 3 | I too have only one tank at the moment so I can not put the females in a separate tank as suggested by you and most of the books I have read . |
| 4 | If I can not make the time myself it might still be worth paying Dessie Clancy and his lad . ’ |
| 5 | If I can just reach the horses , thought Floy , moving stealthily forwards . |
| 6 | If I can just reach the horses and reach up and untether them , I believe we could be off and down the road and the creature would never catch up with us . |
| 7 | But if I can just reiterate the criteria . |
| 8 | ‘ If I can just see the baby . ’ |
| 9 | So er if I can just have the lights off at this stage please . |
| 10 | It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) . |
| 11 | You do n't need to do that now look cos I can just carry the thing into the kitchen . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , do n't take too long , girl , because I can not bear the atmosphere in this house much longer . ’ |
| 13 | But , because I can not accept the idea of total predestination , it has then to be the human being who either succeeds or fails . |
| 14 | While I can not see the attraction , at least it keeps her busy in the evenings . |
| 15 | Finally it was put to the vote , and while I can not recall the actual figures it was something like forty in favour of the UK proposal , about thirty abstentions and just one ( Bulgaria ! ) against . |
| 16 | Whilst I can readily see the subversion in a band like the Sex Pistols ( whom Ambrose signed to EMI Publishing ) , what about Sigue Sigue Sputnik ? |
| 17 | As I can not move the tank or the window , is there any algae eating fish like a plecostomus which will survive in brackish water ? |
| 18 | I am sorry I have not been up to see you but , as you know , I have no job and therefore no income and no car , so life is both difficult and cold ( as I can not keep the heating on at home all day ) . |
| 19 | This produced a reply which I am sure was wholly deserved ( though I can not remember the essay ) , as were his comments on an earlier submission . |